Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-04-04
MOUNDSVILLE.
Local News of the Past Week in the Mound
Civ.

Local News of the Past Week in the Mound
City.
SpeeiGi Telegram TO the Register.
MOUNDsvILLE, April 3.-Andrew Pat,
terson, of Wheeling, was in town yester'
day on business connected with the Day
ton Hinge Company,
II. Crisswell, Jr., vanilla Jones, left
yesterday to join Arthur Loves Comedy
Company.
VIM. WarnOck, of Warnock Station, O.,
was here yesterday.
Robert ROdOeker was appointed guard al
the prison by J. Alex Ewing.
Capt. Robert Lindsey left for Atchison,
Kansas, Tuesday.
A. p. Carney, editor of the SiekLe, is in
Pittsburg on business connected with his
paper.
The Board of Directors of the West Vir'
gina Penitentiary awarded the contract to
furnish coal to j. L. Israel and the
MOundsville Coal Co. and named no price.
J. f.. Israel's bid was $4.3S and Mounds
Vile Coal Company $500 per one hundred
bushels, each to furnish one half OF the
coal.
The future outlook for MOundsville ap-
pears very bright. The work of laying
gas pipes from Riggs well will begin in q
short time, and if the property owners IN
and near town will not imagine that OuI
place is in the heart of New York city and
ask reasonable prices for property Oul
boom is a certainty. There are a number
of improvements now and it is sincerely
hoped the good work may continue.
A. L. Iaing, assistant editor of the
Marshall Herald, spent Sunday in New
Martinsyille.
Services each evening next week III
Episcopal church odd Fellows hall, X.
j. Hammond, rector.
Services duringnex week in ST. Xavier
Roman Catholic church.
The Pickwick club will be entertained
on the 18th inst. at the residence of DR.. q.
w. Bruce.
Trinity Guild will meet at the residence
of L. B. Purdy, on Tuesday evening.
Miss Addie Wyrick, of the Bellaire
schools, was the guest OF Major w. Burly s
family this week.
Miss Grace Wharry finished two lovely
panel pictures done in pastel this week,
for parties in Bellaire.
Several gentlemen from ParkerSburg,
interested in oil and gas, are leasing land
from parties in Ohio, opposite to Mounds
viii, preparatory To sinking test wells.
Mr. u. C. White died at his residence in
the Suburbs on Saturday night and was
inferred on Monday afternoon in Mt. Rose
Cemetery, Rev. Cunningham officiating.
Rev. =. F. Myels and family arrived on
Wednesday.
Frank Burley, of Gravel Bottom has
laid out his farm in town lots.
Considerable indignation is expressed
among the subscribers OF the IatehigCncer
on account of that paper, when referring
to our noted gas well as being twelve
miirs from Wheeling instead of locating il
here in AIOundsVille. Look here, Hart,
that won't do Sam Jones don't live here,
he only comes to Camp Meeting. Give us
Il boom and we will see that he don't make
you cry next camp meeting
Joe Gallagher, Jr., Jim BurlaCh, Doug
las Bruce and John Gallahgher went Sat
urday evening to see Maggie Mitchell.
Geo. Henderson,, OF the b. 4 .. road,
spent Saturday at home.
Mr.. Scott Heatherlngton purchased six
barges from ]. B. Ramagen Wednesday
Terms private.
Thirty carloads of emigrants passed ovel
the b. 4 u. road to parts Ill the West.
Miss Hughes, Of New York City, is the
guest of Miss Emma Parkinson.
Miss Edna Hogan was visiting in Ben
wood.